V For points 91-100 decide to which part of speech each of the given words belongs. Circle the letter corresponding to the appropriate part of speech.

NOUN	Verb	Adjective
n	v	a

91 impracticality n v a

92 canonize n v a

93 legal n v a

94 signify n v a

95 creation n v a

96 activate n v a

97 esoteric n v a

98 seamless n v a

99 violence n v a

100 uncountable n v a

Variant VIII

I Read the text.

For questions 1-5 decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F). For questions 6-10 decide which ending fits the sentences.

The Internet

Internet users can be anywhere in the world; they just need a computer and a telephone. For this reason, it is often difficult to control what happens on the Internet. As computers become more powerful, the Internet becomes easier to use.

In January 1999, an American University student Shawn Fanning invented a piece of software that could copy music. In May of the same year, he started a company called Napster. Internet users could visit Napster and copy their favourite music. They did not need to buy CDs. Of course, the music companies were not very happy about this. A lot of musicians were also unhappy, because people could get their music free. In the end, Napster agreed to pay money to the music companies and musicians.

Today, almost every company in the world has got a website on the Internet. Each site has got a special name(a web address) and you use this to visit the site. But the Internet is not only important for business. It is also a cheap way to make contacts with people from all over the world. A lot of people visit ‘chat rooms: in a chat room, you can ‘talk’ to other Internet users and read their answers on your computer immediately. There is even a special kind of language which people use to save time.

1 The Internet has both advantages and disadvantages. T F

2 Internet users buy CDs to copy the music they like. T F

3 Shawn Napstar designed the software for music copying. T F

4 A chat room cannot be locked or unlocked by the key. T F

5 It is clear that the Internet world needs good legislation. T F

6 Today having a website a when the Nepstar company was started.

7 Not everybody was happy b the world is really getting smaller.

8 The more powerful to computers are, c to have music free.

9 Lots of people would like d the easier the Internet is.

10 With the Internet e is not a problem at all.

II. Read the text. And choose the phrase (a, b or c) that best completes the sentences 11-15. The Exxon Valdez oil-spill

On the southern coast of Alaska is the port of Valdez, and from here most of Alaska’s oil is taken to California and other parts of the USA.

On the 24^th of March 1989, Captain Jeff Hazelwood was in command of an oil tanker which had the same name as the port of Valdez. The tanker was owned by the Exxon oil company, so it was usually called the Exxon Valdez. Just after midnight, the Exxon Valdez hit a group of rocks called Bligh Reef. The tanker had five holes in its side – one of the holes was two metres wide by six metres long. Fifty million litres of oil started to flow out of the ship and into the sea.

Unfortunately, the clean up operation did not begin immediately. A special boat was supposed to be ready for emergences, but it had been damaged by a storm. The clean-up began fifteen hours after the oil-spill was first reported. By the time all the necessary equipment was in place, the weather had turned stormy and strong winds quickly moved the oil into the sea.

The oil from the Valdez disaster covered 4,800 square kilometers of water. Millions of fish and thousands of sea birds and sea-otters died. Some animals and birds died from cold, others died from hunger, because 25% of the plankton in the sea was destroyed in the disaster, leaving many animals, birds with nothing to eat.

The Exxon Valdez disaster was one of the first huge oil-spill in history.

11 Most of oil in the USA is brought

a) to Alaska from California b) from California to Canada

c) from Valdez to various parts of the USA

12 The disaster was called the Exxon Valdez oil-spill because

a) the state and the tanker had the same name

b) the captain and the tanker had the same name

c)the tanker and the port had the same name

13 After the hit the Exxon Valdez got a hole with the size of

a) ten square meters b) twenty square meters c) twelve square meters

14 The oil spot from the Valdez disaster was

a) larger than 4,500 square kilometers b) smaller than 4,500 square kilometers c) 4,500 square kilometers

15 The destroyed plankton resulted in

a) the oil-spill b) the death of sea birds c) the stormy and strong winds